A context under pressure: employability, attractiveness and graduate follow-up

Studies on the integration of graduates show that access to employment remains good overall, but more uncertain than a few years ago. According to recent data from the French Ministry of Higher Education, the rate of salaried employment one year after graduation varies widely by field of study, with a slight decline for the class of 2023. Le Monde.fr

At the same time, many players are pointing out that the alumni network has become a decisive lever. Recent analyses estimate that around one in three jobs can be obtained through the alumni network, via recommendations, co-optations, events and mutual support.

As a result, school managements have to do more than just publish statistics. They need to demonstrate that they know how to maintain an active network, capable of helping students find internships, work-study placements or first jobs, and reinforcing the long-term value of their diplomas.

What alumni.space can do for you in schools and higher education

Alumni.space is a turnkey community management, alumni and mentoring solution designed for schools, universities, CFAs and training organizations.

It enables you to transform a dispersed network into a structured community. In concrete terms, the platform helps you to :

• animate a network of graduates, students and teachers around common events, news and projects;
• demonstrate the success of your alumnis and their role in the professional integration of young people;
• provide teaching, corporate relations and alumni teams with a common monitoring and management tool.

Enhance the professional integration and success of your graduates

Today, alumni networks are considered a strategic asset when it comes to finding a job, whether it’s an internship, a work-study program, a first job or a mid-career change of position.

With alumni.space, you have a dedicated space to: present the careers of your graduates, highlight their positions, sectors and commitments, and illustrate the value of your training courses in concrete terms. You can link job offers, internships, work-study programs and alumni testimonials, which will feed your employability indicators and accreditation files (Qualiopi, France Compétences, labels and rankings).

For career or corporate relations teams, the platform becomes an operational support for organizing recruitment fairs, job fairs and graduate co-optation campaigns.

Making a success of your alumni events and educational highlights

Events are central to the life of a school: open days, graduation evenings, career conferences, corporate forums, alumni afterworks, webinars, international meetings.

Alumni.space integrates event management with online registration and ticketing. You can segment your invitations by cohort, program, campus or geographical area, and invite students, graduates, speakers and partners all at once.

For the school, it’s a way of centralizing registrations, participant lists and communication, while giving alumni a clear view of all community events, including those organized abroad or by local chapters.

Boost the school’s communications with students and graduates

An attractive school is a visible school. Yet many schools struggle to make their actions visible beyond a few newsletters or social networks.

With alumni.space, you benefit from tools designed to maintain this link over time:

• a news section for the school and alumni network, to report on your projects, partnerships, rankings and successes;
• a document library, to centralize brochures, insertion reports, studies, conference replays and teaching resources;
• information feeds highlighting business, sector or international content useful to students and graduates;
• an internal social network where members share feedback, offers and advice, and where you can identify natural ambassadors for the school.

In this way, you reinforce understanding of your strengths, while giving alumni an active role in your communication and reputation.

Supporting employability, work-study and cooptation in a single space

The alumni network has become a key tool for facilitating job and work-study searches: offers, recommendations, CV corrections, simulated interviews, career advice.

Alumni.space provides a job board and co-optation features for distributing job offers between members of the community. For a school or university, this means: helping students and recent graduates access qualified opportunities more quickly, mobilizing alumni as recruiters and referrers, and documenting the concrete role of the network in professional integration.

This same space can be used for one-off assignments, entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial projects, or graduate research-company collaborations.

Promoting citizenship and intergenerational initiatives

Higher education is no longer limited to imparting technical skills. Schools are expected to make a contribution to the community, society and the environment. Alumni networks can play a key role in these areas.

Alumni.space includes several bricks that reinforce this aspect:

• a diary of the community’s highlights (successes, publications, solidarity projects, key moments), to showcase people’s journeys and commitments;
• a space dedicated to volunteer initiatives, tutoring and social mentoring, enabling students and graduates to get involved in high-impact actions;
• intergenerational events that bring together new graduates, experienced graduates, lecturers and institutional partners.

In this way, you can make your commitments visible, involve your alumni in your CSR initiatives and reinforce the feeling of belonging that goes beyond the diploma.

Features designed for teaching staff and alumni

Beyond its user-friendliness, alumni.space acts as a real management tool for school management, alumni services, corporate relations and foundations. In particular, the platform enables :

• Enhanced profiles and internal social networking
  Each member has a detailed profile (education, year of graduation, sector, skills, location). This makes it easy to identify mentors, potential contributors, donors or country relays.
• Segmentation by promotions, programs and geographical areas
  You can target your communications and invitations by stream, year, campus or country, making each message more relevant and reducing noise.
• Themed spaces for your communities
  Business clubs, regional networks, communities of practice, incubators, research chairs: each collective can have its own space to publish, exchange and organize its activities.
• Usage and engagement statistics
  Site usage data enables you to track the activity of different communities, measure the impact of your events and campaigns, and feed your internal reports or accreditation files.
• Controlled indexing and coherence with your digital ecosystem
  You retain control over the public visibility of content, so you can link the platform to your corporate site, social networks and other digital tools, without dispersing information.

A solution that’s easy to integrate into your digital ecosystem

Establishments are already multiplying tools: ENT, LMS, CRM, application solutions, e-learning platforms. Adding yet another cumbersome system is neither desirable nor realistic.

Alumni.space offers a clear model: a platform dedicated to community and mentoring, which can be interfaced with your existing communication and tools, without launching a complex IT project. Feedback on “alumni as a service” solutions shows that a well-structured alumni network can become a strong selling point with applicants and partners, just like rankings and labels.

For your teams, it’s an opportunity to professionalize alumni events, without asking IT departments to rebuild a customized solution.

What you gain in school and higher education

By structuring your community of students, graduates and partners via alumni.space, you can transform your network into a lasting strategic asset. In concrete terms, you can :

• strengthen employability and career support through a mobilized and visible alumni network;
• increase the appeal of your training courses by showcasing career paths, ambassadors and living communities;
• support work-study, internships, cooptation and entrepreneurship in a single space;
• give new depth to your civic, CSR and international actions by involving your graduates;
• bring overall coherence to your alumni, foundation, corporate relations and communication initiatives.

Next step: adapting the platform to your business

Each school has its own specific characteristics: the size of its community, the nature of its courses, the importance of work-study programs, its international presence, the existence of an alumni association, and the stakes involved in terms of financing or reputation. The aim is not to add another tool, but to structure what already exists and align it with your priorities.

You can build on this foundation in three ways:

1. Clarify your alumni strategy: which audiences (students, graduates, PhD students, executives), which priority communities and which use cases (career, mentoring, fundraising, international, CSR)?
2. Formalize a simple sales pitch to present the platform to your governance, your alumni association and your partners, showing the benefits for each.
3. Build a 12-month animation plan (events, content, mentoring, citizen initiatives) to ensure that the community takes ownership of the tool and that every action taken by the school leaves a useful and measurable trace.